Faculty and students at both universities will continue to pursue common research interests, collaborating to solve cutting-edge problems in science and engineering. MIT has renewed its relationship with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology...
Ahead of his appearance at the Innorobo Keynote in Paris in May, Albert Yefimov, head of the Skolkovo Foundation's Robotics Centre , gave an interview to TheDisruptory, a website devoted to disruptive innovations from around the world. Image: thedisruptory...
Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts and Moscow, and EDF, the largest state owned energy company in France, have just signed a memorandum of understanding as the French Minister of Economy Emmanuel Macron met his Russian counterpart...
The newly launched $100-billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Belt andRoad Initiative - two ambitious projects spearheaded by the nation - will provide the impetus forglobal economic growth in a likely challenging 2016. The optimism...
The technology incubation campus outside Moscow has retooled itself in the face of challenging times and a changing political scene. John Tefft, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, at Startup Village. Photo:sk.ru John Tefft, the U.S. ambassaor to Russia...
A spate of Russian startups descended on the Southeast Asian tech hub of Singapore this week in a quest to raise capital and form local partnerships to build a foothold in the region. "It's not so easy to find investments from European...
By Fu Jing in Moscow and Liu Jia in Brussels Russia and China are keen to extend their close relationship from strategic cooperation and energy projects to advanced technology such as nano and space sectors, which can enrich China's proposals of...
Russia and China partner on $200 million venture fund, incubator for Russian tech companies Their goal? Increased cooperation to develop technology that benefits both of them. The United States isn’t the only place...
First announced in 2009 by then-President Dmitry Medvedev, the Skolkovo Foundation is charged with handling the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Photo: sk.ru Russia's Skolkovo Foundation...
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) The Skolkovo Foundation, the strategic development institution of the Russian government, and the India government-sponsored Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) Thursday announced the setting up of an information...
Space cooperation between Russia and India has come a long way since it began in 1975, when a Soviet space rocket launched India’s first satellite, Aryabhatta, and in 1984 the first Indian cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma flew into space aboard the Soyuz. Russian...
More than 50 Russian startups presented their ideas at Slush, a cutting-edge event for high-tech companies and venture investors in Finland from November 18-19. In 2014 more than 50 Russian startups attended Slush, the hippest IT event of the season...
Russia has a new tech city, called Skolkovo , chock-full of co-working spaces, seed funding, and a research university. All they need now are the technologists. A recruitment tour — led by the city's vice president, Igor Bogachev — arrived...
Mr. Alexander Povalko, Vice-Minister of Education and Science & Technology in the Government of Russian Federation called on Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, MoS in Prime Minister's...
Last week, Intel signed a strategic collaboration agreement with the Association of Technoparks in the field of High Technologies, a nonprofit partnership created in 2011 to implement the Russian government’s strategy for innovative development. ...